I need help finding a good ground meat substitute.?!
I need help finding a good ground meat substitute.?
There are many recipes that I enjoy that call for ground meat. While I sometimes use Morning Star crumbles, I am looking for more of a moldable ground meat substitute, so I can make things like meatballs. I have used Lightlife's Gimme Lean but my local supermarket no longer carries it.
Also, if anyone knows of any vegetarian/vegan supermarkets in the NYC/NJ area or online where I could buy such a substitute feel free to tell me.
So please help. Thank you.
Answers: Loma Linda has a product called vegeburger. I was raised Seventh Day Adventist & grew up on the stuff. Even though I eat some meat now, I very much prefer the meat substitutes, such as linkets(hot dogs),wham(fake ham), dinner cuts,etc. The nice thing about a lot of Loma Linda products is that they come in cans, so they can be kept on the shelf. These products are good for vegans, too.
I have a several cookbooks that have hamburger substitutes that you can make yourself.
Gluten Meat Substitute
8 cups wheat flour
2 cups water
Directions:Combine & knead or beat for 10-15 minutes. Soak covered with cold water for an hour. Rinse out starch under hot water until firm & bran is rinsed out. Water should look almost clear, drain for !/2hour. You now have "raw" gluten meat. Tear into pieces &boil for 30 minutes in strong,salty flavored broth of your own choosing or the one below.
Flavoring Broth
1 tbsp.soy sauce
1/2 chopped onion
4 tsp seasoning salt
1 tsp black pepper
2 Tb. McKay's "Chicken" seasoning *(has no chicken products) OR George Washington seasoning.**
4 cups water
Directions: Miix together & bring to a boil. Add pieces of raw gluten "meat" & boil for 30 minutes.
For ground beef substitute, grind in a meat grinder. It can be used in a many recipes that call for ground beef. You may need to add some oil with certain recipes.
I have made gluten"meat"& breaded & fried it. It was delicious! II did dip them in egg before breading though.
I have never canned gluten, but I think the finished product could be canned in the broth just like meat or fish.
* I have only been able to find this where they sell the whole line of Loma Linda substitute meat products. I'm not sure if it is a Loma Linda product or not.
**This product can be found in some supermarkets around Thanksgiving & Christmas,either wiith seasonings or with the dried soups or gravies. If I remember correctly, it is vegan also. Source(s):
Experience & cookbooks Grind cooked soybeans, rice, and wheat germ in your blender. Add tomato juice or egg to make it moldable. Enjoy. i am in nz. but we have santaterium mince in a can. its made out of wheat gluten or textured vegetable protein. thats what you need. something wet cos the dry stuff won't work. if all else fails buy some vegan sausages..(you should be able to get them at your supermarket) do not go for the tofu ones tho..look through the ingredients and if it says textured vegie protein (or tvp..or wheat gluten) you should be sweet. then take them home and grind them up raw and make whatever you want out of them. sometimes lentils in that canned tomato stuff can be good too but a bit dodge. I would have thought pressing out the water from a block of tofu, then crumbling it up like cheese would work. It would brown up like ground beef, wouldn't it?
I'm really not sure. Not being a vegetarian, my experiences with tofu are very limited.
Your question raises a good point. What to do if you want "meatballs" without the meat. (gosh that sounds strange)
Good luck. where i live Price Chopper is a great way to find that kind of stuff but they tend to run higher-priced because of that kind of clientele that they want, they are all about getting the money somehow. my mother makes the best love loaf(not meat loaf, she uses love! you Cant tell the difference, hahaha) wnat the recipe? she uses star crumbles,a nd they work pretty damn good Myself, I don't believe in trying to disquise my cooking. If all that soy stuff is so great, then it should work fine by itself and you wouldn't need to doctor it up so much with a truckload of spices, colorings and other ingredients to try to make it look and taste like something else in the first place. Either use meat, or if you're a devout vegan, then use only vegetables. But it's dishonest and futile to try to have one masquerade as the other. Actually, all you need to do is add some agar agar or a similar binding agent to the Morningstar Farms crumbles. It works reasonably well. http://vegetarian.about.com/
has homemade veg burger recipes that are AWESOME!! just roll them in to balls. there are trader joe's locations in both nyc and jersey that carry meatless meatballs (vegan). there are about... hm, i'd say 30 in a package, and it costs less than $4.
as for making meatless ground and tvp into meatballs... no success there. i'm sure there would be a way to get the stuff to stick all together.. but eh... i don't bother. :) try wholefoods market iam sure theres one or two in new york. they have soy products that substitute meat. Look at Boca, the flavor is good. the texture is right..might work well in your recipes.
Slainté (to your health) One of the easiest way that I do if for my stepdaughter is something called TVP (Textured Vegetable Protein. It's soybeans with all the starch removed. You can find it in many supermarkets even (in the bulk section), in health food stores, and online in a pinch. High in fiber and protein. Much cheaper than other 'meat substitutes' and costs about $1.50 a pound. A pound goes a long way. We make Vegan sloppy joe's out of it and add it to spaghetti sauces, I even make my own burgers with it.
The TVP Cashew bbq ROCKS!
Go to Recipezaar.com and do a search for TVP recipes. There are a few pages.
http://www.recipezaar.com/reci...